Monthly Archives: June 2020
Dow records worst decline in 2 weeks, ends 730 points lower amid bank sales and declines on Twitter, Facebook
US stocks fell on Friday to end the day and week lower against assets deemed risky as Texas and Florida were forced to back down on plans to reopen COVID-19 locks. amid a record number of new cases reported across the country. The Dow Jones Industrial Average SPX, -2.42% They …
Read More »Tate Modern: Jonty Bravery jailed for throwing boy from balcony
Image copyright Policeman Screenshot Jonty Bravery was 17 when he was charged with attempted murder. A teenager who threw a six-year-old boy from a 10th-floor balcony at London’s Tate Modern has been jailed for at least 15 years. Jonty Bravery, 18, of Northolt, planned an attack and attacked young children …
Read More »Supreme Court Denies Texas Democrats’ Request to Expand Mail Voting
The court order is the latest move in an ongoing battle between state Democrats and state attorney general Ken Paxton, a Republican, over voting during the pandemic. Democrats argued that people should not have to choose between their right to vote and their health. Paxton has been adamant that expanding …
Read More »New ideas about energy levels in quantum dots
An electron within a quantum dot is raised by a photon (green waveform) to a higher energy level. The result is a so-called exciton, an excited state consisting of two electrons and a hole. By emitting a photon (green waveform), the system returns to the ground state (green path). In …
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